Typography Weekly #13

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Real – Interview with Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois

With the publication of Johannes Erler’s Spiekermann monograph Hello I am Erik last year the readers also witnessed the presentation of a new typeface by Erik Spiekermann: Real. Almost one year later, FF Real™ was released as an extended family …

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Cardamon family 75% off for 24 h

The whole Cardamon font family by Brigitte Schuster is currently 75% off at Linotype for only 24 hours.

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Learning to make a font the hard way

Thiago Oliveira describes the creation of a font over the course of 6 years on Medium.

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American Type Founders Collection

The American Type Founders Collection from TypoBrand LLC builds on the ATF legacy of originality, creativity, and innovation, introducing new interpretations of classic ATF typefaces.

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Opinions on Alphabet’s typographic logo

WIRED asked designers and branding experts to make sense of the new wordmark. Their reactions spanned the congratulatory to the skeptical.

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Introducing FF Hertz

“Low stroke contrast, generous spacing, and fine-grained weights from Light to Extra Bold make FF Hertz a workhorse text typeface which holds up well under today’s widely varying output conditions from print to screen. ”

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